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Cross burning during a Ku Klux Klan gathering in Oak Hill, Ohio in 1987 Ku Klux Klan members at a cross burning in 2005. In modern times, cross burning or cross lighting is a practice which is associated with the Ku Klux Klan. However, it was practiced long before the Klan's inception.
The Knights of the Flaming Circle was a militant organization founded in 1923 to fight the anti-Catholic Ku Klux Klan. [1] They were part of an opposition that included politicians, labor leaders and immigrant groups. [2] Membership was open to anyone who opposed the KKK and was "not a Protestant". [3]
This category includes television episodes about or featuring the Ku Klux Klan, the shared name of several historical and current American white supremacist, far-right terrorist organizations and hate groups.
The New Jersey Ku Klux Klan held a Fourth of July celebration from July 3–5, 1926, in Long Branch, New Jersey, that featured a "Miss 100% America" pageant. [14] In 1926, Alma White published Klansmen: Guardians of Liberty. She writes: "I believe in white supremacy." [15] In 1928, Alma White published Heroes of the Fiery Cross. She wrote: "The ...
Virginia v. Black, 538 U.S. 343 (2003), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held, 5–4, that any state statute banning cross burning on the basis that it constitutes prima facie evidence of intent to intimidate is a violation of the First Amendment to the Constitution.
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The Missouri Republican Party is working to remove a Republican candidate for governor from the ballot after a photo resurfaced online of the candidate saluting in front of a burning cross.
Against his protests they placed Johnson in another car, surrounded by two guards, and burned a cross in front of the home. When the cross had finished burning, a representative of the Klan knocked on the door and informed Johnson's mother that if Johnson were "ever seen walking down the street with a white girl again the Klan would attend to him".